Iron Range
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Sep 28, 2026
John JovanovicSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But it all starts mining more in America.
John JovanovicSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The mine you mentioned is the first mine opened in America in 50-plus years focused on iron ore. Exim financed it, and most importantly, it's found on the Iron Range in America, which for 145 years has been the most prolific iron ore deposit in the world.
John JovanovicSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It helped build America.
John JovanovicSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It helped win two world wars.
Howard LutnickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So we are beholden to Brazil to build our steel in America because the input is coming from outside the country.
Howard LutnickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So now...
Howard LutnickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We are unleashing the iron range in Minnesota, which is the greatest, as the chairman said, the greatest set of iron in the world is right here in America.
Howard LutnickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We're going to these gentlemen to my right from SR. They're doing a fantastic job.
Brad BennettHOST
represents the area of Northern Minnesota House of Representatives.
Brad BennettHOST
Masabi Metallics opening their mine in Nashuac is a big win for the Iron Range and our nation.
Brad BennettHOST
Well, the ore will be mined here in Minnesota and will be strengthened and bolstered, not just the Iron Range.
Brad BennettHOST
but the steel industry in the United States for generations to come.
Brad BennettHOST
Masaba's next $15 billion investment and as many as 1,700 jobs is going to Iowa.
Brad BennettHOST
And now we are watching another enormous investment land somewhere else.
Brad BennettHOST
We cannot keep watching billions of dollars in investment and thousands of good paying jobs go elsewhere and pretend there is nothing we can do about it.
Brad BennettHOST
The people of the Iron Range want this opportunity and we have the workers, the resources, the communities ready to support these projects.
John JovanovicSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But it all starts mining more in America.
John JovanovicSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The mine you mentioned is the first mine opened in America in 50-plus years focused on iron ore. Exim financed it, and most importantly, it's found on the Iron Range in America, which for 145 years has been the most prolific iron ore deposit in the world.
John JovanovicSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It helped build America.
John JovanovicSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It helped win two world wars.
Howard LutnickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So we are beholden to Brazil to build our steel in America because the input is coming from outside the country.
Howard LutnickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So now...
Howard LutnickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We are unleashing the iron range in Minnesota, which is the greatest, as the chairman said, the greatest set of iron in the world is right here in America.
Howard LutnickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We're going to these gentlemen to my right from SR. They're doing a fantastic job.
Abe Del RioGUEST
We have our second speaker, Joel Sturges.
Abe Del RioGUEST
He's the author, host of After Hours A.M., Right off the Iron Range as well, he is going to be, he also was seen on Discovery Plus talking about the Minnesota Iceman that was shot in northern Minnesota in the 1960s.
Abe Del RioGUEST
We have our third speaker, Gwendolyn Guthrie.
Abe Del RioGUEST
from the fold mysteries who also has been on history channel and travel channel coming on talking about her experiences as far as being chased or escorted out of the woods of kentucky it's going to be a family fun event uh we're going to have raffles we're going to have a bigfoot calling contest for the adults and for the kids uh it's just all the way around place where people can share their bigfoot experience and i say that because at About 940, 845, we're going to open up the doors to our town hall meeting where people can do just that and share their encounters and their sightings.
Sven SundgaardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In between, probably a good inch for much of the metro.
Sven SundgaardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A little less for central Minnesota up into the Iron Range.
Sven SundgaardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The North Shore, probably a half inch to three-quarters of an inch.
Emily ReeseHOST
Sunshine will return to the forecast for Minnesota on Thursday and Friday with highs in the 60s.
Kenny GallagherHOST
I'm going to go to Canal Park, Army Corps of Engineers, Canal Park, 61 degrees.
Kenny GallagherHOST
Winds are light out of the northeast and up on the Iron Range, Brad, at least at Eveleth, 65 and fair skies.
Kenny GallagherHOST
My goodness.
Kenny GallagherHOST
This is great weather, and we're going to have some mild weather.
Neil AtkinsHOST
House seat is a part of, but Grant Hochschild is the state senator, and he's a Democrat, and that district that he represents.
Neil AtkinsHOST
It represents Hermiton all the way up to two harbors and all the way up to the Iron Range, including Babbitt, okay? All right.
Neil AtkinsHOST
The mayor of Babbitt, Andrea Zupanich, is running against him.
Neil AtkinsHOST
She's a Republican, and they ran against each other four years ago, and he won by not a huge margin but enough to get him across the line.
Neil AtkinsHOST
It has to be negative on each side.
Neil AtkinsHOST
Both sides are coming nasty, nasty, nasty.
Neil AtkinsHOST
And the piece of literature coming out on the negatives on her... was coming out of the political committee for the future of the Iron Range, i.e. DFL.
Neil AtkinsHOST
But anyway, so you've got both of those, and it's a heated race.
Pete StauberHOST
How will it benefit?
Bruce WestermanGUEST
You're well aware coming from the Iron Range, and again talking about environmental stewardship, you have some of the cleanest water in the world up there where they've been doing mining for a long time, do it very responsibly.
Bruce WestermanGUEST
But if we look at mining for an example, on average it takes four to four and a half years to go through the NEPA process.
Bruce WestermanGUEST
When you go through the NEPA process on mining, you start measuring in decades, as you well know.
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Pete StauberHOST
By 2040 then we're using today.
Pete StauberHOST
Where are we going to get that? Let's do it here.
Pete StauberHOST
The good Lord blessed the United States with, richly blessed with these minerals and you know I come from the state of Minnesota, northern Minnesota, the iron range where we mine the iron ore that has made over 80%, still makes over 80% of this nation's steel.
Pete StauberHOST
And when we look at the opportunity that the state of Minnesota has, for example, in the Duluth complex, the biggest untapped copper and nickel find in the world.
Pete StauberGUEST
It's about jobs and economy.
Pete StauberGUEST
And, you know, John, Masaba Metallics on the Iron Range, it's the first reopening of a mine in over 50 years.
Pete StauberGUEST
And for the viewers, these mining jobs are $135,000 on average, and that includes the benefits.
Pete StauberGUEST
That doesn't include overtime.
Pete StauberGUEST
And Minnesota mining, our future is bright.
Pete StauberGUEST
We have to have the political will to do it and not rely on adversarial nations.
Pete StauberGUEST
And for your viewers, I think they know this, that the Iron Range in Minnesota mines the iron ore that makes over 80% of our steel in this country.
Pete StauberGUEST
We are a strategic national security congressional district, and I'm fighting for these jobs in the Iron Range and throughout northern Minnesota, and I won't stop until they get here.
Nina MoiniHOST
For the first time in a half century, a new iron ore mine has started operations in Minnesota.
Nina MoiniHOST
Dan Crocker reports from the Iron Range.
Dan CrockerCORRESPONDENT
Nearly 20 years after first breaking ground, mining is finally underway at Masabi Metallics outside the tiny town of Nashwauk.
Dan CrockerCORRESPONDENT
Local leaders and Trump administration officials visited the $2.5 billion project last week.
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